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Since the first descriptions of mosquito-borne Zika virus in South America and the Caribbean in 2015, evidence has been mounting that the infection can be spread through unprotected sexual intercourse from males to females who have not traveled to endemic areas. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provide evidence that a female traveler to an unidentified endemic area has transmitted Zika virus to a male sexual contact, presumably as the result of condomless vaginal sexual intercourse occurring on the day of her return from the endemic area.
A female in her 20s developed headache and abdominal pain the day before she returned to New York City. Her symptoms on the da…